Re: style guide
* Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>, 2012-02-07, 20:53:
http://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide
* “The package […] should have a working setup.py or setup.cfg file” —
err, surely setup.cfg without setup.py is not enough.
* “there appears to be no way to prevent distribute explicitly from
downloading the package” — some ideas how to do it:
1) Eradicate setuptools from setup.py. Not always easy or feasible, but
some upstreams use setuptools only if it's importable, falling back to
distribute when it's not.
2) Empty install_requires and tests_reuquire (yay for consistent
spelling!) in setup.py. If setuptools doesn't know what to download, it
won't download anything.
3) Fool setuptools into using a non-functional HTTP proxy, e.g. by setting
this in your debian/rules:
export http_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:9/
(Port 9 is Discard Protocol, so it should be safe even if something is
actually listening on the port.)
* “dh_python2 will correctly fill in the installation dependencies (via
${python:Depends} and ${python3:Depends}” — dh_python2 doesn't touch
python3:Depends.
* “The next lines are useful if upstream has a non-standard change log
that needs to be installed.” — this doesn't appear to have anything to
do with Python. Also, there is some leftover flufl in this paragraph. :P
* “debian/*.pyremove […] Again, this does not need a Python 3 version.”
- why it's not needed for Python 3?
--
Jakub Wilk
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